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Fairy Tales


Fairy tales (Märchen) are fictional stories which contain elements of magic or the supernatural. Their usual theme is the triumph over difficulty of the one least likely to succeed. Characters are stylized.



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The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales - Online publication of the 1910 edition of the classic by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Includes Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast.
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Fairy Tales and Fables - Plain text files of tales of the Grimm Brothers, the Arabian Nights, and H. C. Andersen, as well as fables.
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French Fairy Tales - Course web page from Wesleyan University, including the French Fairy Tale student project and a list of online resources.
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Legends: Fairy Tales - Guide to classic fairy tales on the net.
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The Rapunzel Project - Let Down Your Hair! - Analyses of folk tale type AT 310 by students of Carleton College.
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Propp's Structure of the Magic Tale - Outline of the classical work "Morphology of the Folktale."
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Story Origins: Beauty and the Beast - On the many tellings of the story of Beauty and the Beast with references to historical origins.
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The Sleeping Beauty Page - Texts and analyses of folk tale type AT 410 by students of Carleton College.
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Ongoing Tales - Old Time Fairy Tales - Antelope Publishing brings well loved and lesser known fairytales to life with electronic enhancement.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin - By Robert Browning (1888), illustrated by Kate Greenaway; e-text at Indiana University Libraries.
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The Three Sisters - Texts and analyses of folk tale type AT 552 by students of Carleton College.
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Fairy Tales - Web resources and bibliography devoted to fairy tales in the written tradition.
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Bearskin - Texts and analyses of folk tale type AT 361 by students of Carleton College.
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Cinderella Stories - List of online and off-line resources of variations of the Cinderella story, compiled by Kathy Martin.
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A Scholarly Snow White - Includes introduction, interpretations, bibliographies, and comparisons of different versions, prepared by Kay E. Vandergrift, Rutgers University.
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Little Red Riding Hood - Rotkäppchen - Introduction, variants and bibliography (in English and German).
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The Frog Prince - Texts and analyses of folk tale type AT 440 by students of Carleton College.
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Susan Elizabeth Sweeney Bluebeard's Home - Research devoted to the classic European folktale about a serial wife-murderer.
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Beauty and the Beast - Guide to on-line resources, images, and bibliography.
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Free Public Domain - Fairy Tales - Online fairy tale books from Andrew Lang, the Grimm brothers, and Hans Christian Andersen.
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SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages - A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring annotated fairy tales, illustrations, and a forum.
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Tom Tit Tot - An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale - By Edward Clodd (1898), at sacred-texts.com
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A Book of Fairy Tales - A collection of 45 fairy tales.
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Cinderella - A description of the tale with filmography.
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Little Red Riding Hood - A description of the folktale.
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Sleeping Beauty - A description of the folktale.
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Cinderella Project - A dozen English versions of the fairy tale.
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Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project - A text and image archive containing several English versions of the fairy tale, from the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Little Red Riding Hood Project - Text and image archive containing sixteen English versions of the fairy tale.
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Fairy Tales - Northern State University course materials on the history and interpretation of fairy tales with annotated bibliography.
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Eulahlie's Southern Fairy Tales - Southern history and tradition through the eyes of Eulahlie, a Cajun girl.
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The Fairy Tales and Fables of Ambassador Parlay - Complete original fairy tales and fables.
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